What many of us have been speculating on for a bit, and for sure what many others have noticed with Jordan’s conspicuously blurred front end on his bike pics lately.
Not sure if it’s officially been released, but Nick over at TriRig did a quick write-up on the new Zipp here:
Looks to be carry over from the new Alumina line, but into the one-piece VukaAero, albeit now with integrated stem as well, and a bit of jumping on the Kamm-tail-wagon. Apparently substantially more adjustable than the previous VukaAero was, and more so than one would expect front a 1pc integrated stem/bar combo.
Nick, thanks for putting up these pics of the new Vuka bar. Just my opinion…why the hell does a base-bar need a Kamm tail design??? That doesn’t make any sense at all. Does Zipp really think that some amount of cross-wind is really going to have any bearing from the base-bar?? Just make the base-bar with a full on 4:1 or 5:1 or greater profile. Who cares about the “idea” of the Kamm design on a base-bar?? Zipp should have made the base-bar to be most aero optimal in true tear-drop ratio. Then again, the entire theory of the Kamm design just doesn’t make a lot of practical sense for bike speeds of 30mph and under, IMO.
Aside from my nit-picking on the Kamm design, the rest of the bar looks great. I like it a lot.
However, I am quite partial (owning 2 of them) to the first gereration 3T Ventus aerobars. Thin and flat is fast!
If you can save weight & get the same aero benefit, then why not do it?
And from the pics, it looks like the truncated shape gives a nice spot to hide some cables, something you can’t do on the true airfoil/teardrop profile.
Nick, thanks for putting up these pics of the new Vuka bar. Just my opinion…why the hell does a base-bar need a Kamm tail design??? That doesn’t make any sense at all. Does Zipp really think that some amount of cross-wind is really going to have any bearing from the base-bar?? Just make the base-bar with a full on 4:1 or 5:1 or greater profile. Who cares about the “idea” of the Kamm design on a base-bar?? Zipp should have made the base-bar to be most aero optimal in true tear-drop ratio. Then again, the entire theory of the Kamm design just doesn’t make a lot of practical sense for bike speeds of 30mph and under, IMO.
Aside from my nit-picking on the Kamm design, the rest of the bar looks great. I like it a lot.
However, I am quite partial (owning 2 of them) to the first gereration 3T Ventus aerobars. Thin and flat is fast!
The UCI cares… Aerobars need to be 3:1 in order to be UCI legal. This is a change (albeit one that’s been in effect for a couple years now. The VukaAero is NOT UCI-legal. So that’s a problem, since it IS faster than the VukaBull… But not faster than this…
Can you clarify the front brake cable routing? It looks like it comes out the center of the stem in those pics. If it does, is there a provision for a cable stop if running an Omega or other brake not requring housing all the way to the brake?
Does anybody have a guess on the stack height of the bar? It looks tall, which is fine with me. Looks around 6 to 7 cm, or that could be the small drop messing with my eyes.
